When the mind starts to wander, and doubt, and dredge up old bad things and convince you that it is a good idea to drunkenly stare down old homes that hardly matter, it is time to take the cure: literature. Read something someone else wrote about what you’re trying to write about. Relieve yourself of [...]
My brain likes to play at night. In bed, lights off, it races through memories and possible futures and experiments and a hundred ways to rearrange the living room. I make tea and read a book in an attempt to narrow the focus and perhaps lull myself to sleep. This week’s book is Ordinary Affects [...]
New Year’s Eve.
In which we raise glasses to ourselves and our friends, cheering the arrival of a new year, which we are sure will be better than the last, laughing heartily at the jokes we make at our own expense while eating toast points and caviar, and the municipality sets the river on fire at [...]
Now, I don’t usually take an interest in yearbooks — especially my own. I think there’s a stack of highschool annuals under the guest bathroom sink at my parents’ house; I never bothered to order my college yearbook (but I did get the nifty laminated wallet-sized diploma).
But I do love books, and I love vintage [...]
I work for 12th Street Books, a rare and antiquarian bookseller here in Austin, Texas, and rare is the day that I don’t stumble across something fascinating. I’ve decided to occasionally photograph and post some of the more remarkable finds here — not necessarily the rarest or most expensive, but simply those books and ephemera [...]
I love fonts. And typography. And lettering. And design. And all that jazz. But I don’t know a whole lot about it, technically speaking. I did buy a book — Anatomy of a Typeface, by Alexander Lawson — but I haven’t had time to read it and actually internalize all the vocabulary and details on [...]
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